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[quote=SETH,353187]I've been away a while, trying (and failing) to get away from my stressful work environment! Since I've been gone, we still see Sunni and Shi'ite and other Muslims in pursuit of killing the others for the sake of Allah. We have Hamas inflaming the Arab/Muslim world by provoking Israel into upgraded armed conflict using God (pick your choice of God's name) as a centerpiece in the struglle. Even here, in this modest post, we have people suggesting "we must kill those who kill the innocents. In the name of civil society, we must smoke those fanatical religious nutheads who plan mass murders of civilian population. Not necessarily in the name of G-d." But killing "fanatical religious nutheads" seems to me (in an oblique way) to still killing in the name of God!

Anything that is not animal, mineral, or vegetable - and anything that doesn't exist as a solid, liquid, or gas - must by definition exist as a "concept". God is therefore a "concept" that people believe in, even though everything about God (again, pick your poison) has been fefined by well-intentioned people who have never seen or talked directly with God. It can be argued that even Atheists are believers in God, since you first have to believe something is REAL to state the case for disbelieving it exists!

My position is very simple: whatever YOU (by YOU I mean 'anyone') believe (or disbelieve) is fine with me. But when you choose to get in my face because you think you are correct and I am wrong (in belief of an unproven abstract concept!!!), you have to be certifiably nuts! Still, it is every human being's right to be crazy. And as long as you do it quietly, it is still ok with me! But crossing the line into barabrism, killing, etc., because of YOUR belief in how YOUR concept is interpreted is hust plain wrong! That is where societal laws come in, because society has the obligation to protect itself from the predators, nutcases, sociopaths, and psychopaths. Here too, if you adhere to and believe that the 10 Commandments aren't multiple choice, then "Thou Shalt Not Kill" drives your boat. Otherwise, feel free to "kill those who kill the innocents. In the name of civil society, (we must: sic) smoke those fanatical religious nutheads who plan mass murders of civilian population." [POST TO BE CONTINUED][/quote]

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